I recently had a HD crash so I installed Itunes again, in this case 9. But there was no way I could restore my files, backed up from my Classic 120 GB to itunes. So I started reading around and it rurned out that A LOT of classic owners suddenly had a ruined, beyond restore Ipod Classic. Luckily I didn't try to sync yet, so no harm done. And now I'm installing Itunes 8 again: